It was my birthday and I was having a 1/4 life crisis, I crawled into bed next to my wife and panicked. What have I done with my life? Sure I’m only 27, already married, trying for children and doing a degree but I haven't really achieved any greatness yet! Oh, it's also worth noting at this point that I’m unemployed for the 1st time in my life, even if it's only until I get a start date for my new job.
21 hours later
So now I’m 27 and all thoughts of panic are gone, mostly because my wife has drunk too much Baileys, collapsed, thrown up all over herself, me and our bathroom and generally entertained/horrified our guests. Once she sobered up a little we went out and had a great night.
The morning after the night before
I'm definitely not 17 any more. I woke up with a smashing headache and apparently today was my day to be sick. We had organised a party with my family, all 14 of us, including the 7 children. It was loud, but worst of all my wife felt fine. Now I feel old.
Desperation
The rest of the week passed normally until I got a call from my ex-employer. The long and short of it is I won't get paid much this month. This led me to think about the things we do in desperation. In October 2008 the lady who is now my wife was so desperate to move out of her parents house that she bought the 1st place she could, a 1 bed flat, less than 6 months later the 2 bed flat was purchased, fully furnished, for the same price. Since we got together in 2010 I have reminded her constantly of how silly this was. I will never mention it again. I was so desperate for a new job last September that I took the 1st job that came along, and look where it got me.
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27 and Proud.
